Psychosomatics of children’s lying in preschool children
Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Children’s lying is often a defense mechanism of children. Adolescents are afraid of the authority of significant people around them – parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, older brothers and sisters. These fearful experiences develop into a psychosomatic expression of the children’s experiences, emotions and feelings. They are unable to process this emotional burden and react with a somatic disorder. The children’s lie is an occasion to try to look into the world of the child in his growing up process from the 3rd to the 7th year. In this period of development, many new impressions, observations, sensations suddenly invade the child’s world intensively and from everywhere. With each new day, the child discovers more new things, some of which he learns from his parents, others – from his older brother and/or sister, third – from children’s movies, fourth – from fairy tales, fifth – from movies, sixth – from walks in the park, etc. When the child’s psyche is overwhelmed by so many new impressions, and when the child at the same time does not have the resources to deal with the arrangement of the newly received information from the surrounding world, confusion occurs; to mixing real with imaginary/fantasy; of what happened to me now with what happened to my comrade; of what happened to me now in this way with the way I wanted it to happen (as in the fairy tale or in the movie). The lack of ability to make such a difference between a reality and an imagined situation leads to qualifications as a “childish lie.” Usually, the adult closest to the child, who spends most of the time during the day with the adolescent, knows his mental world and could act as a “translator” of what the child really means. It is crucial to give the necessary time and attention, and for the child to be listened to, the parent should make for himself a distinction between fiction and a lie, and only then should a distinction be made between reality and a lie.
Author: Lubomira Dimitrova
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4405968839